perfectly clear

 

The irony at the end of "that" That Girl episode - the whole time, Ann's father has been outraged and scandalized because he thinks Donald's novel is too risque, but when the publisher reads it, he judges it to be not risque enough.

        ("Don't water it down!  Let it sizzle!")

        He wants to make it more exploitative, and Don says "no" to that.

Mr. Marie is very surprised by T.L. Harrison's comments.  He is astounded to learn that the publisher's point of view is not the same as his own.

This aspect of the story reminded me of the Jane Austen novel, Emma, and also the movie Shadow Of A Doubt, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

        In both of these works, the main characters think they know what's going on with other characters in the story, but there are attitudes and arrangements and situations with those other characters that the main characters don't know about.

        These stories illustrate how people go about their business, in life, depending upon the information they have, or the information they have thought up in their own imaginations, which may be vastly different from reality.

(President Richard Nixon used to say, "Let me make one thing perfectly clear..."

        In many situations, things are not perfectly clear, and we don't have a true picture.)

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